Portable tobacco-press



H. W. KIMBALL.

PORTABLE TOBACCO PRESS.

(No Model.)

I No. 337,410.

Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

WITNESSES .dtterney 'Uiarrsn TATES ATENT rrrcn.

HENRY W. KIMBALL, OF YVALLSBURG, OHIO.

PORTABLE TOBACCO-PRESS.

:5PECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,410, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed July 13, 1885. Serial No. 171,453.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. KIMBALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at WVallsburg, in the county of Brown and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to portable presses, and its object is to produce a press which may be taken apart and put together, and whose sections are light, so as to be easily handled; and myinvention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a complete press, and Fig. 2 is a section through the main nut M and the head-block.

My improved press is provided with a platform preferably made up of three parts, a b c. The main or central part of the platform rests upon and is supported by sills e e e. The central platform, b, is provided with cleats on the under side, which regulate the relative position of the sills,which are bound or held firmly against the cleats by means of iron tierods h h. The supplemental parts of the platform, a and c, are secured to the outside sills by means of the angle-irons d (1. These angle irons are bolted to cleats on the platform, and are clamped to the outer sills by the tie-rods h h.

The supplemental platforms or extensions 0: and c are for supporting the hogshead while being filled, and after the tobacco has been pressed.

In connection with this press I propose us ing a rolling platform or truck, properly constructed to support the head of the hogshead during pressure to bring the hand-pack of tobacco beneath the platen or the press.

is is a head-block which carries the main nut M; and it consists of two pieces of timber held by double clips Z Z. These timbers are cut away or bored to receive the main nut, and they are also held together by screwbolts through them on opposite sides of the main nut.

The main nut M is of cast-iron,with a flange at each end to fit and rest upon the timber of the head-block. This nut is adapted to turn in the head-block, and is provided with sockets for the operating-levers.

The screw it is made of wrought-iron, fits (No model.)

into the nut M, and is connected with a platen or proper pressure-plate, and is long enough to press the hand-pack of tobacco without blocks.

The screw is made of wrought metal to secure a given strength with the least weight of material.

The frame-work or standard for connecting the head-block with the sills which carry the platform consists of rods q q, the upper ends of which are rigidly secured in the double clips The lower sect-ions of these rods areprovided with wrists,which fit in eyesin the slngle clips 3 s on the central sill. The upper and lower sections are coupled by means of turnbuckles, whereby the head-block may be adjusted nearer to or farther from the platform or may be detached for transportation or storage, as the case maybe.

The pivoting of the main rods at the bottom, as described, is for the purpose of swinglng the head-block to one side while filling the package with tobacco in case the supplementary platforms are not used, as well as for folding out of the way or for convenlence 111 removal when the press is dismantled.

For additional strength and stablhty, I pro vide the guy-rods r r. These rods are provided with turn-buckles for the purpose ot lengthening or shortening and for adjusting or plumbing the screw, as well as for uncoupling the parts. They are provided wlth wrists at both ends,which fit in sockets in the double clips on the head-block and the single clips 38 on the sill. v

The clips Z Z and s sare of cast-iron, and. furnish a convenient means of coupling the headblock and sills or plat-forms. by means of the main rod q and the guy-rods r 1'.

By reason ofthis construction I am enabled to produce a press weighing twelve hundred pounds, or more, which may be readily han- 5 dled and set up and operated by two men, and when taken apart for transportation or storage occupies very liltle space.

Having now described my lnvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a portable tobacco-press, the COIIlblnation of a head-block and platform, sectional standards, and means of coupling the same, substantially as described.

2. In a portable tobacco-press, the combination,withahead-bloclc and platform, of ver- 5. In a portable tobacco-press, the combitically adjustable standards," substantially as nation of the main platform I), supplemental described. platforms on and 0, the sills, tie-rods, and

3. In a portable tobaccopress, the combiangle-irons, whereby a knockdown combi- 5 nation, with a head-block, of vertically and nation-platform is produced, substantially as 15 laterally adjustable standards, substantially as described.

described. HENRY XV. KIMBALL.

4. in a portable tobacco-press, the combi- In presence of-- nation,witha head-block, ot'laterally-adjusta- R. E. CAMPBELL,

IO ble standards, substantially as described. I ALBERT G. FITE. 

